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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008: 1031 words
Last week’s blog I thought about what the three worst problems in the world were to me. After thinking about the many issues facing the world today I finally narrowed it down to three that I feel strongly about. The issues of poverty, crime, and education are three issues in today’s society that are not [...]
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008: 225 words
For week three, the main question of this blog topic is what way can I help our society? The issue I know I can definitely help with is to decrease poverty especially in my community. For my project I wanted to start a mini food or clothing drive. I will make decorative boxes/flyers and place [...]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008: 1360 words
In my last blog I stated the three problems that I thought was facing the world today. When I read what I was suppose to do for this blog I thought to myself; which three problems would I be able to help out with the most. The three biggest problems that I thought faced the [...]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008: 371 words
The alphabet democratized civilization by creating a way of communication and expression that was never available to the people before. It allowed the people to make connections with others and get ideas and thoughts out easier than before. The forms of the alphabet that were used before like the cuneiform, said to be the easiest [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 136 words
Since I can’t really do anything right now that I would really want to implement (due to lack of funds among other things), I decided to be extremely active through my involvement on campus. As a part of the Class E-Board, I developed a Mock Debate in conjuction with the forensics team in order to [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1028 words
In my last blog, I wrote about influencing the world through an increase in knowledge. Now, I’m actually supposed to develop a project to implement this idea. I know in my previous blog I spoke about passing out literature and holding forums, but that is something that was a sort of long term goal for [...]
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008: 1056 words
The solution to terrorism is first informing people of how serious terrorism is. Because if you are aware then you can act. The solution terrorism is very complicated because everyone would have to just agree to disagree and leave it at that. That would be very hard for the more dominate countries such as the [...]
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008: 72 words
I chose to do my project on help grade school student in the community pass the LEAP (or GEE). I would also like to help other members of the community that did not have the chance to aquire a high school diploma complete the neccessary steps to earning a GED. I am not working on [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008: 20 words
DeAnna Walker
Sarai Weathersby-Casby
Hau Tram
Johnnie Roseman
Gabrielle Gordon
Mai Pham
Charlita Harris
Andre Jefferson
Holly Nguyen
Tracy Smith
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Friday, September 26th, 2008: 912 words
I became a member of the Big Brother/Big Sisters of America program my senior year of high school. It was introduced to the junior and senior classes, and I was definitely intrigued. I was given an interview and then I was admitted into the program. The chosen Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008: 259 words
I believe one of the biggest problems the world has to day is nose people, America is the nosiest country butting into every one else’s business when we don’t even have our selves together. We have people being put on the streets because we don’t provide them with the resource we have plenty of, Education. [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008: 1085 words
Many times in life we don’t understand why things happen the way they do. We don’t know why people die, why people get diseases, or why people end up in fixable situations. The saying God only puts you threw what you can handle, is one of the hardest lessons to learn. Many times we blame [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 838 words
My previous blog concerned the problem I wish to publicly address and do something about. I pondered the three problems that I had listed this past weekend and realized my alternatives weren’t of many. Out of the three problems I stated, I chose the one I could possibly do the most about. My concern pertains [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 248 words
In last week blog i talked about three problems i feel we face in the world today. Poverty, crime and global warming. All three problems are major concerns and need special attention but for this week i have to choose one of those problems and implement a plan on how i can makes a difference. [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 1036 words
Last week I had to come up with three problems that faced the world today. I also had to pick one in order to implement a plan for it throughout this entire semester. I still have not exactly figured out what I am going to do, so it will be [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 107 words
The problem I am adressing for the semester has to do with wide spread cases of STDs. I read in an article that 1 out of every 5 teenage girls has a STD. This is very high number from my prospective. My plane is team up with the nurses of Xavier University to bring mre [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 107 words
I plan to coordinate events that will provide information on the different aspects of living with diabetes. I will gather physicians, dieticians, and any other interested certified individuals to speak on this topic. To put my plan in action, I will contact Dr. Kevin Stephens, director of the New Orleans Health Department, in hopes to [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 932 words
I previously mentioned that I believe that the three major problems facing the world today are education, healthcare, and poverty. I consider poor education and lack of feasible healthcare services as contributors to the extreme levels of poverty that are prevalent today. Unfortunately it appears as though the importance of education has taken a back [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 143 words
In My Project, my third idea was to have a charity dance function in order to raise money so that I could open a homeless shelter or community center. The whole point of this was to give poverty stricken children an opportunity to display their talent because according to a documentary I’ve seen many poveryt [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008: 645 words
Before writing this blog, I thought about the problems I had presented last week. Of the three, I feel that poverty is the closest to my heart. Therefore, I know that I would work do everything in my power to help alleviate this problem. Politics is a problem that is critical at this point in [...]
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